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Bad Light

The light at the moment is terrible for taking photos of my craft projects, so it is stopping play at the moment. I can't believe its a week since we were all crafting away the the Scrapstars retreat. As usual it was an excellent weekend packed with fabulous classes and inspirational ideas. I had booked this week off work so that I could finish everything off and I am so pleased with all my work. Unfortunately with the terrible light, even during the day I am struggling to get some decent pictures to post. Before the retreat we were issued with a couple of challenges, the first was to create a name badge using weather as the inspiration. Well at the time there was only one sort of weather around, SNOW. Rumour has it that there may be some more this weekends BRRR! So here was my name badge

and the second challenge was to create an 8 x 8 layout based on the bestseller 50 Shades of Grey. Well I've never red the book, you could certainly see the ladies that had. There were some excellent takes on the theme, I chose to talk about turning 50 and the grey appearing in my hair. so this was the layout I created. I have now stick it down onto a 12 x 12 sheet as this is the normal size I choose to scrap in.

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I started crafting as a child with a knitting dolly and bits of wool, over time I've have 'had a go' at most things creative. My real love is scrapbooking and papercraft projects, both evolved from my card making.

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If you see something on this blog that inspires you, by all means go ahead and use it. If you do please be kind enough to link back to me, as I do if I'm inspired by other crafters. Leave a comment if you like something, I love reading them. I wholly embrace shared practice of ideas, but please don't directly copy any of my work for publication or competition entries, that's not nice.